From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
To: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Kernel Team <Kernel-team@fb.com>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>,
Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>,
Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>,
Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com>,
"cgroups@vger.kernel.org" <cgroups@vger.kernel.org>,
Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 0/7] mm: reparent slab memory on cgroup removal
Date: Tue, 28 May 2019 09:01:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190528070128.GM1658@dhcp22.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190522222254.GA5700@castle>
On Wed 22-05-19 22:23:01, Roman Gushchin wrote:
> On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 02:59:06PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Wed, 22 May 2019 21:43:54 +0000 Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Is this patchset good to go? Or do you have any remaining concerns?
> > >
> > > It has been carefully reviewed by Shakeel; and also Christoph and Waiman
> > > gave some attention to it.
> > >
> > > Since commit 172b06c32b94 ("mm: slowly shrink slabs with a relatively")
> > > has been reverted, the memcg "leak" problem is open again, and I've heard
> > > from several independent people and companies that it's a real problem
> > > for them. So it will be nice to close it asap.
> > >
> > > I suspect that the fix is too heavy for stable, unfortunately.
> > >
> > > Please, let me know if you have any issues that preventing you
> > > from pulling it into the tree.
> >
> > I looked, and put it on ice for a while, hoping to hear from
> > mhocko/hannes. Did they look at the earlier versions?
>
> Johannes has definitely looked at one of early versions of the patchset,
> and one of the outcomes was his own patchset about pushing memcg stats
> up by the tree, which eliminated the need to deal with memcg stats
> on kmem_cache reparenting.
>
> The problem and the proposed solution have been discussed on latest LSFMM,
> and I didn't hear any opposition. So I assume that Michal is at least
> not against the idea in general. A careful code review is always welcome,
> of course.
I didn't get to review this properly (ETOOBUSY). This is a tricky area
so a careful review is definitely due. I would really appreciate if
Vladimir could have a look. I understand he is busy with other stuff but
a highlevel review from him would be really helpful.
--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-05-28 7:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-05-21 20:07 [PATCH v5 0/7] mm: reparent slab memory on cgroup removal Roman Gushchin
2019-05-21 20:07 ` [PATCH v5 1/7] mm: postpone kmem_cache memcg pointer initialization to memcg_link_cache() Roman Gushchin
2019-05-28 17:14 ` Vladimir Davydov
2019-05-28 21:56 ` Johannes Weiner
2019-05-21 20:07 ` [PATCH v5 2/7] mm: generalize postponed non-root kmem_cache deactivation Roman Gushchin
2019-05-28 17:11 ` Vladimir Davydov
2019-05-21 20:07 ` [PATCH v5 3/7] mm: introduce __memcg_kmem_uncharge_memcg() Roman Gushchin
2019-05-21 20:07 ` [PATCH v5 4/7] mm: unify SLAB and SLUB page accounting Roman Gushchin
2019-05-28 17:12 ` Vladimir Davydov
2019-05-28 22:00 ` Johannes Weiner
2019-05-21 20:07 ` [PATCH v5 5/7] mm: rework non-root kmem_cache lifecycle management Roman Gushchin
2019-05-28 17:08 ` Vladimir Davydov
2019-05-28 17:37 ` Waiman Long
2019-05-28 17:39 ` Vladimir Davydov
2019-05-28 17:41 ` Waiman Long
2019-05-28 18:00 ` Vladimir Davydov
2019-05-28 22:03 ` Johannes Weiner
2019-05-28 22:28 ` Roman Gushchin
2019-05-21 20:07 ` [PATCH v5 6/7] mm: reparent slab memory on cgroup removal Roman Gushchin
2019-05-28 18:33 ` Vladimir Davydov
2019-05-28 19:58 ` Roman Gushchin
2019-05-28 20:11 ` Vladimir Davydov
2019-05-28 21:52 ` Roman Gushchin
2019-05-28 22:16 ` Johannes Weiner
2019-05-21 20:07 ` [PATCH v5 7/7] mm: fix /proc/kpagecgroup interface for slab pages Roman Gushchin
2019-05-28 17:38 ` Vladimir Davydov
2019-05-22 21:43 ` [PATCH v5 0/7] mm: reparent slab memory on cgroup removal Roman Gushchin
2019-05-22 21:59 ` Andrew Morton
2019-05-22 22:23 ` Roman Gushchin
2019-05-28 7:01 ` Michal Hocko [this message]
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